The Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing today entitled "The Assault on the First Amendment on College Campuses" heard many witnesses bemoan that U.S. campuses have gone from bastions of free speech to its burial grounds, but it will largely ignore a…

More than a dozen U.S. intelligence agencies have previously confirmed that Moscow interfered in the 2016 election, but in congressional testimony today the government admitted that Russian hackers targeted election systems in at least 21 states during law year's campaign.…

Today's ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court, that even trademarks which are racially disparaging are protected by the First Amendment, and therefore such trademarks are entitled to federal registration, almost certainly dooms a legal action by Native Americans to cancel…

France, already under a state of emergency following the terrorist murder of a police officer in the Champs-Elysees shopping district, has just reported that a car has rammed a police van, immediately catching fire, and police immediately opened an anti-terror…

The end to the criminal trial of Bill Cosby with a hung jury and mistrial is not surprising, and may well be the result of jury nullification; a perfectly lawful doctrine which has been upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court,…

Although President Donald Trump's efforts to protect and bring back jobs for coal miners is well known, he's now - perhaps inadvertently - doing the same for professors at our nation's law schools, notes public interest law professor John Banzhaf.…

The Trump administration has amended its travel ban, now before the Supreme Court, to avoid a timing problem highlighted by a law professor more than a week ago. Public interest law professor had noted that, if…

"Chief Wahoo," the allegedly racist and derogatory symbol of the Cleveland Indians, is the subject of a complaint which was recently upheld by Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario. While the legal ruling that the complaint is…

The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled against the two major contested portions of President Donald Trump's travel order, and allowed the stays on those portions to remain in effect, but it has lifted the stay preventing the…

Today the Supreme Court will receive briefs from those who oppose President Donald Trump's efforts to have stays on his second travel order lifted, and the Court may act very shortly thereafter, perhaps even this week, but the effect of…

The complaint which President Trump's lawyer has threatened to file against former FBI director James Comey, for admittedly leaking memos about his conversations with the president, is almost certain to fail in a legal sense, but it could be very…

In a little noticed answer, former FBI Director James Comey suggested that president Donald Trump could not be guilty of the crime of obstruction of justice - even if he had ordered rather than simply suggested an end to the…

Numerous experts have tried to compare President Donald Trump's efforts to end the FBI's investigation with the words of the criminal obstruction statute to see if what is already known - and what might come to light in today's hearing…

A federal contractor has just been charged with leaking a top secret NSA report which described how Russian military hackers targeted U.S. voting systems in the 2016 presidential election, and claiming that this cyber attack was more far reaching than…

Newly emerging information suggests that authorities might have been able to prevent Saturday's terrorist massacre in London if only they had been permitted to require, under certain circumstances, that persons likely to engage in terrorism wear GPS ankle monitors to…

Responding to the London incident - Britain's 3rd major terrorist attack in only 3 months, and the 13th in Western Europe since the beginning of 2015 - President Donald Trump has declared that the carnage will "only get worse," and…

In the wake of Britain's third major terrorist attack in only three months, the UK may want to follow Germany's lead to begin using GPS ankle tracking device as the only cost-effective means to keep track of the thousands of…

The Supreme Court has directed that responses to several requests filed by the Justice Department regarding the administration's immigration ban be filed by June 12th, and experts seem divided on whether the Court is likely to allow the order to…

Thirdhand tobacco smoke, previously known simply as tobacco smoke residue, can be deadly, especially to infants, toddlers, and others, U.S. News is reporting today. Perhaps more importantly, it is possible to sue when exposed to this…

Although the U.S. already spends more money per person on health care than any other country on earth, it nevertheless ranks only 43rd in life expectancy - behind the Turks, Cayman, and Faroe Islands, Greece, South Korea, Italy, etc. -…